HC Deb 15 July 1915 vol 73 cc1015-6W
Mr. ARTHUR STANLEY

asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Agriculture whether, in view of the fact that more than half the world's consumptive needs of sugar is produced in countries where war is raging and by their dependencies, and in view of the contemplated inevitable shortage of sugar in 1916–17, and of the recommendation contained in the Report of Professor Orwin on the cultivatioin of sugar beet in the West of England, the Government propose to encourage the production of Homegrown sugar?

Mr. ACLAND

Perhaps I may refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave the hon. Member for the Attercliffe Division of Sheffield, in reply to a somewhat similar question on the 5th inst. I have nothing to add at present to that reply.